This study attempts to verify the effect of social support for group home adolescents on the ego-resilience. On this purpose, this study investigates the ego-resilience of the group home adolescents and the social support level, presents the difference of their ego-resiliences and the social supports depending on the general characteristics, and verifies the influence of the social support on the ego-resilience. Totally 32 group homes located in Pusan, Ulsan, and Daegu agreed to provide the information and 66 people attended this survey in ways of postal questionnaire and face-to-face analysis. Major results are as follows: the level of the ego-resilience of the group home adolescents in this survey is measured as 3.48 on an average by a five-point rating scale which is above the average. The social support level of the respondents is measured by a four-point rating scale and that of surrogate caregiver support shows highest level of 3.50 on an average. In addition the ego-resilience of the respondents and the social support depending on the general characteristics in the overall did not differ significantly. Furthermore, from the result verified the effect of social support on ego-resilience, emotional self-control and curiosity, sub-areas of ego-resilience, do not show a meaningful dependence on social support. This study presents discussions based on the result of the survey, and indicates the necessity and the limitation of social intervention and promotion of surrogate caregiver, peer, and teacher support in order to improve the ego-resilience of the group home adolescents. Finally recommendations of follow-up study are also presented.